UNCITRAL's Working Group II (Arbitration and Conciliation) will begin its 47th session today, July 7 , in New York. Among the items to be discussed is a proposal for a multilateral convention on the…
Praying you'll get a good tribunal?Critical negotiation moments punctuate the entire timeline of an international arbitration, from before it starts to even after it is over. And when these moments…
In an encouraging ruling of earlier this year (see Case No. 249 of 2013 – Middle East Foundations LLC v. Meydan Group LLC (formerly Meydan LLC), Commercial Appeal, ruling of the Dubai Court of Appeal…
On 16 April 2014, the Parliament of the European Union has published legislative resolution No P7_TA-PROV (2014) 0419 on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council…
By Maria Eugenia Ramirez and Roland M. Potts
According to a recent study, as many as seventy-five percent (75%) of contracts entered into by the 500 largest global multinationals contain arbitration…
By Peter Godwin, Elaine Wong and James Allsop, Hebert Smith Freehills
The Japan Commercial Arbitration Association ("JCAA") has introduced an amended version of its Commercial Arbitration Rules (the …
Arbitration proceedings sometimes spawn a host of parallel court proceedings. It is not unheard for parties to seek to instrumentalise courts, sometimes with the complicity of the courts themselves,…
This is a response to yesterday's post by Duarte Gorjão Henriques, "Incorporating IBA Guidelines Into A 'Code of Ethics': A Step Too Far?"
My unambiguous answer to his title question is "right…
On 23 January 2014, the Centre for Judicial Education and Research (CJER) at the City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK) hosted a lecture delivered by Ms. Olga Boltenko, Arbitral Clerk to Neil Kaplan…
